In 1948 the National Party, which was the ruling party of South Africa at the time enacted laws which prevented marriage between non whites and whites, and white only jobs among others.
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html
**Note**
Although this can be taken as the start year for apartheid, one must take into consideration that apartheid was institutional racism, therefore one has to look at the years in which these laws were passed.
Apartheid was not a pleasant thing, but in reality was little different from the segregation practiced in the US southern states at the same time.
Alhaji Yusuff Maitama-Sule has written: 'Time for sanctions against apartheid South Africa is now' -- subject(s): Apartheid, Economic sanctions 'Struggle against apartheid' -- subject(s): Apartheid
it was a time a group who decided who passed laws.
Terrorism.
Apartheid began in 1948 and ended with the speech from De klerk in 1990.
SA was not ruled by the British during the apartheid era. The country was independent for a number of years during the time.
Apartheid
America never had apartheid. Apartheid occurred in south africa.
Apartheid is a noun.
Boers
The apartheid the whole thing until it in 1982.
It means after the apartheid era.